Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.

His point is that to the left it is desirable to find a way to label oneself a victim. I have noticed this trend as well, and I think it partially explains why the left gets so upset when conservatives try to label themselves as victims. To the left, there is power in the victim label.

It's a repeat of the Todd Akin fallout, but unlike Akin, Will had a good point. The statistics activists are the Democrat party are wallpapering the country with are fake. Will joined a growing list of people speaking out against overly-broad new definitions of rape, deceptively-worded surveys and the "consent" crusade that assumes all sex is rape until proven otherwise.

Honestly, it's hard to pretend to be too upset about this. I'm a big fan of George Will and I hate to hear lies told about him, but at the same time this fake outrage is downright boring. Modern feminists have created these phony scandals so many times that everything they're now saying is predictable and cliche. Dogs bark, cats meow and feminists scream "rape apologist."

I've never seen a group of people more eager to misunderstand their opponents than modern feminists.